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Queen excluder shaker box

Anyone have any prints or explain to me what one is/how to make one? Do I just staple a queen excluder to the bottom of a deep and shake bees down into an empty super? Should I put an excluder on the bottom of a deep with frames in it then bounce the box on top of the other box I want the bees into? I'm trying to get extra nurse bees into a queenless hive I'm going to use to graft with so I need to keep from accidentally adding a queen into the mix. Thanks for the replies

Re: Queen excluder shaker box

Moon,
In that video we were actually joking about the brood pattern. It was a beautiful sold frame of brood. Of the hundreds of hives that I saw at Mikes I never saw one that had what one would refer to as "shot brood". He has great queens.

Since we were building a queenless cell builder if we found the queen in the shaker box we would just pick her up and put her in the donor hive.

Re: Queen excluder shaker box

It is a funny thing but bees don't like walking across duct tape. They will but reluctantly. Once you have shaken 5-6 frames of bees into the box you do need to flick some down with the brush to keep them from boiling over but the duct tape acts as an invisible barrier noticeably. I learned this from Mike Palmer and it works. A few flicks of the brush, a small whiff of smoke usually is enough to get those valuable nurse bees heading in the right direction into the cell builder.

As for a plastic excluder I don't think it is durable enough. With a wooden framed metal one you can glue and staple it to a deep and it is quite bombproof. The shaker box spends a lot of time on the ground and well as in the bed of the truck and I think a plastic one would fail a lot sooner with the abuse of being dragged through one outyard to the next.